CFP: Women and Labor (grad) (12/10/05; 3/4/06)

We are inviting graduate students to submit papers,performances and panels/roundtables for our conference thattakes a special look at women who labor. The definition oflabor is broad and can include issues such as domestic labor,wage labor, sweatshops, sex work, motherhood, slavery tocapitalism, bondage to hegemonic structures and systems,bondage to ideologies that restrict our freedom, bondageto/desire for love, sex and relationships and limiting self-concepts, and more. We invite graduate students to askcritical questions on these imperative issues, and welcomeboth academic and non-academic/artistic submissions. We arelooking at this event as an cross-disciplinary, interactive,inter-woven space that allows people from diverse fields ofinterest to come together and share their work.

This conference is a part of the Mellon Workshop "Of HumanBondage" which is a year long series of events to be held atthe University of California at Riverside. Mellon Workshopson various topics are a yearly feature of academic life atUCR and bring together scholars whose work it is to engage inintellectual thought and creative scholarship.

The conference is a one day event to be held on Saturday,March 4, 2006. The deadline for submission of abstracts isDecember 10, 2005. Please email your abstracts to AmitaNijhawan, anijh001_at_ucr.edu. Please also mention if you haveany special needs for technology or space. Abstracts shouldbe e-mailed in the body of the message rather than asattachments. Please include a brief biography.